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India - the Biggest Democratic Country in the World - Some Facts

India is the 6th largest country in the world

Russia 11.5%, China – 6.5 %, United States – 6.5 %, Brazil – 5.7%, Australia – 5.2%, India – 2.3%

More than a million Indians are millionaires

Yet 35% of India's population lives below the poverty line!

India shares Independence Day with three more countries in the world.

South Korea – 1945 (from Japan), Bahrain - Aug 15 1971 (from UK) and the Republic of the Congo – Aug 15 1960 (from France).

Indian civilization has a known history of 10,000 years and is one of the best contnuing civilizations in the world..

Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today

All of India is under a single time zone.

Population - 1,166,079,217. Birth rate 22.8 births/1,000 population. Death rate 8.38 deaths/1,000 population

Ethnic Groups

Indo Aryan 72%, Dravidian25%, Mongoloid and other's 3% (2000 est.)

Religions

Every major world religion is represented in India.

The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism,

They are followed by 25% of the world's population.

Religions in India (2000 census)

Hindu - 81.3%, Muslim - 12%, Christian - 2.3%, Sikh - 1.9%, other groups (Buddhist, Jain, Parsi ) - 2.5%

The majority of Indians are Hindus

The biggest Hindu temple is Akshardham New Delhi.

The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi in India, built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination.

It is larger than either Rome or Mecca. The daily donation averages approximately $ 6 million (US)

Muslims form 12 % of the Population

India is but first in the world with the most number of mosques. There are 300,000 active mosques in India.

Languages - It is in India that the most number of languages are used.

India has 16 languages (Hindi – Official Language, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit and Hindustani) and 1,652 other dialects spoken among various tribes, cults and castes.

The World's first university was established in Takshasila in 700 BC.

It was that time a known Buddhist centre. Now this ancient city is in Pakistan and is known Taxila.

Ayurveda is the earliest known school of medicine known to the world

It was practiced in India 2500 years ago. The first recorded account of plastic surgery is found in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts. Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery.

Mathematics

It was an Indian scientist, who introduced zero (0). Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus also orignated in India. The value of "pi" was first calculated in India.

The earliest cotton fabrics in the world were spun and woven in India.

Roman emperors called it “woven winds.” The Mogul emperors called the fabrics “morning dew” and “cloth of running water."

The first and greatest known civilization

Ancient Indian civilization developed around the valley of the Indus River (now in Pakistan) around 3000 B.C. was larger than any other empire.

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